Dustin,

I can’t figure out the formatting on this forum. Why you guys chose to do the forum this way is beyond me. I have used Mandrake, Ubuntu, Opensuse, Fedora, Deepin, Manjaro among so many other distros and have pics which show exactly what I have described to you. Pics really aren’t needed. I think it best I step away from Antergos, again…

Sorry but this ain’t worth it.

Best of luck but I’m out of here for now and maybe forever. I wish Antergos all the best but I can’t waste any more time on this.

All the best.

Hey,

Ctrl+Alt+F3 gives me tty.

yaourt -Syua gives me a list of seven updates including an update for lightdm. When trying to install a conflict with dependencies is noted and no updates were applied.

sudo systemctl enable gdm.service -f works in the sense that it just brings me to another prompt. I’m not sure why or if there is something to do after that. Pressing F2 or F1 after that command does not bring up GDM.

If GDM is installed, should I be getting an update for Lightdm?

At least I got a tty prompt. :)

@anarch
As I suspected, forcing the system service for GDM F2 did not work. Ctrl+Alt+F3 gets me a tty screen but trying to upgrade still gives me the error message regarding file conflicts (lightdm update)? What do you think?

@anarch
I’ll give it a try. No worries, if it works great.

Making progress. Ctrtl+Alt+F2 gives me tty!

Bad news, there is a conflict as Lightdm is trying to update. I don’t understand why as I have been using GDM. I think I just need the command to remove the Lightdm update and the update can proceed. I’m not sure if this will correct the black screen issue, but things seem to be looking up.

@louis_1
Thanks for replying. I’m confused. How can I run any command with nothing but a blank screen? I assume you don’t mean with the Live USB stick.

As for lightdm, I followed the instructions on another post and it worked flawlessly.

By the way, I think you are correct the graphics card did start. As the monitor indicates it is on (a blue light).

Also, I don’t use nouveau drivers due to a complete freeze on a regular basis. That goes for any OS I install. Nvidia drivers work perfectly. I even have the Antergos Live USB stick freeze on my system.

Also I used the following command to replace lightdm ‘sudo systemctl disable lightdm && sudo systemctl enable gdm’.

The LED lights are on with a blank screI am using the nvidia drivers as the nouveau drivers are buggy at best.
How do i use arch-chroot to repair my system?

I am somewhat out of of my league on this one. Also, I think Antergos should look into using the live USB Disk to diagnose and fix issues.

Edit: Obviously Arch Live Image can be used to repair the system. Using the tutorial link text. I move along following the instructions. I get to the Using Chroot section with the instruction to cd /mnt/arch. Unfortunately, I get an error message saying file or directory does not exist.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here. Thanks if someone can help.

Just tried them all with no luck. Something tells me my system is hosed.

GDM was installed a week ago and it never caused a problem or so I thought. You would know more.

CTRL+F3 does not bring me a tty screen. I should have mentioned I tried this - sorry about that. Just a black screen.